...Lenovo Group Limited, Microsoft Corporation, Oracle Corporation, Samsung Electronics Co., Sony Corporation and many others. Main Competitors SWOT HP SWOT analysis 2013 Strengths 1. Strong presence in China 2. Brand reputation 3. Diversified product portfolio Weaknesses 1. Poor competency in acquisitions 2. 29% of income comes from personal systems division 3. Poor presence in tablet market Opportunities 1. Expand services and enterprise solutions divisions 2. Increasing demand of cloud based services 3. Acquisition of more technology related patents Threats 1. Retaliation by incumbent firms in software services 2. Slowing growth rate of the PC market 3. Rapid technological change Strengths 1. Strong presence in China. The economy of China has been growing at a steady more than 8% rate every year. The growing economy accelerates corporate spending and HP is well positioned to benefit from it. The company has increased its investments in the market and expanded product and service offerings, especially its enterprise business and services divisions. These divisions offer the most profitable HP’s products, including cloud computing services and enterprise solutions. Strategic expansion into Chinese market may result in a strong competitive advantage for the business in the near future. 2. Brand reputation. HP is the world’s leading PC vendor with more than 15% market share. It is also one of the major providers of service network products. The company...
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...& Scanner Innovations (HP) 2011 Print from places you seldom thought possible Products like the HP Officejet Pro K8600 e-All-in-One (AIO) printer connect to the Internet, enabling key benefits such as ePrint—letting you print from virtually anywhere with a web connection by emailing the printer’s unique email address. Another benefit of web-enabled printing is print apps, which allow you to enjoy instant access to printable web content from your printer’s control panel. The ePrintCenter feature on the HP Officejet Pro K8600 lets you view printer status, add or remove print apps, use a host printer’s apps, and manage ePrint settings remotely and through any web browser. [pic] Scan more than just flat objects Scanners have traditionally been used primarily as a tool for scanning photographs and the document management, but the evolution of technology has opened the door to many new and exciting possibilities. The HP TopShot LaserJet Pro M275 is HP’s first web-connected color laser multifunction printer with the power to scan 3D objects, which can be used to create unique artwork and presentations. In addition to 3D objects, converting your paper documents into electronic form allows you to store, share, and use them more effectively. Considering document management with scanners like the HP Scanjet 5590 is just smart business. | |HP Officejet Pro 8600 |HP Officejet Pro 8600 Plus |HP Officejet Pro 8600 Premium...
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...HP Photosmart 5510 Series User Manual M. Raquel Medina ENG/221 August 14, 2012 Gregory Bontz Recently purchased, by the writer, was an HP All-in-One printer, scanner, and copier, the HP Photosmart 5510 series. A manual was provided in the boxed package but can also be viewed online at http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c02983578.pdf. The manual provides simplicity, clarity, attractiveness, organization and graphical illustrations. It is a well written instructional manual for users of any technical level, although the length of the document is a little too long. According to Don Norman, “People do not want to read manuals — they want to do their activity. Help them get right to work, with minimum reading” (Norman, 2012). At times a reader can become confused and frustrated with a user manual that is too big. Keeping the manual clear and simple is important. Simplicity • Positive: The HP Photosmart 5510 series user manual is made simple because of the shortness in its index. There are only nine major topics that are covered in the manual but these nine are the key points to operating the device. The manual has each topic linked to the page so a simple point and click gets you to the information needed. • Negative: The Technical Information portion of this manual was not easy to follow. Although, technical information is not the easiest to make simple. Clarity • Positive: Clarity is important when reading a user manual because your...
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...Food Giant Standardizes on HP for Infrastructure of Champions HP success story One of the largest food companies in the world, General Mills has one of the lowest IT spends per revenue dollar in the consumer packaged goods manufacturing industry. The company, which has long pursued a strategy of IT standardization and consolidation, operates its entire global enterprise on HP systems — from the HP Integrity servers that run its SAP ERP and Business Information Warehouse, to the HP iPAQ Pocket PCs used by its retail salesforce. In addition to cost savings, the simplified infrastructure has enabled quick response to business change — most notably when General Mills acquired Pillsbury, a company of near equal size, and integrated it into its infrastructure in just 16 months. General Mills markets 100 of the world’s best-loved food brands, including Betty Crocker, Haagen-Dazs, Pillsbury, Green Giant, Old El Paso, Wheaties and Cheerios. It holds the No.1 or No.2 market position in virtually every category in which it competes. It also relies on a single vendor for its IT systems worldwide: HP. “We think that we’re extremely different in the way that we manage information systems at General Mills,” says Vandy Johnson, senior director of I.S. Operations, who oversees the $12.3 billion - dollar company’s business warehouse, data management, telecom, network, I.S. security, data center, and server and web infrastructure operations. General Mills operates the core of its business...
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...HP Universal CMDB Software Version: UCMDB 10.10, CP 13.00 Universal Discovery Content Guide - HP Integrations Document Release Date: November 2013 Software Release Date: November 2013 Legal Notices Warranty The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. Restricted Rights Legend Confidential computer software. Valid license from HP required for possession, use or copying. Consistent with FAR 12.211 and 12.212, Commercial Computer Software, Computer Software Documentation, and Technical Data for Commercial Items are licensed to the U.S. Government under vendor's standard commercial license. Copyright Notice © Copyright 1996 - 2013 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. Trademark Notices Adobe® and Acrobat® are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. AMD and the AMD Arrow symbol are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Google™ and Google Maps™ are trademarks of Google Inc. Intel®, Itanium®, Pentium®, and Intel® Xeon® are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Java and Oracle are registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Microsoft®, Windows®, Windows NT®, Windows® XP, and Windows...
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...professions and four computers. For the computers, I have chosen the Dell Inspiron Desk Top, the Hp Pavilion Slimline desk top, the Toshiba Satellite Laptop and the Hp Envy laptop. I have chosen author, educator and lawyer as my profession. I will pair the appropriate computer with its profession. An author may seem like they would not need much in the way of computers. Often times they do not even use computers to write, but instead prefer pen and paper. However, the work will have to put into a computer sooner or later. An author probably would not be in need for very much space. Their work will most likely be stored on portable storage devices so that they can transport it agencies. Because of this, I think that a suitable computer for an author would be the Toshiba Satellite laptop. It has memory and hard drive space, just not a lot. It is cheap and would serve its purpose for the author perfectly without having the extra features. Teachers and instructors have a little more of need for space. Again, however, they don’t need a lot. They would have to save their lectures and all their classwork saved on their computers as well as the students’ grades. All of this would indeed take up space, but not enough to warrant the extra money for the memory and hard drive. They would do just fine with the standard amount of space. For this reason, I suggest either the Dell Inspiron desk top or the Hp Envy series laptop. These...
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...WAN to tie all three KFF locations together. Make the internal network configuration in each store a WLAN, and add VOIP to the multi-store network. * Define which store will house the central servers. * Design the network to be expandable beyond the existing stores. The current specifics of the setup is as follows. La Jolla Store : 100baseT environment, IBM Blade System C3000 running UNIX, Corporate SAP ERP SW, 10 TB NAS Backup, 5KVA APD UPS for power backup, Retail Operations entail NCR RealPOS 82XRT POS Terminals, Management 19 Dell Vostro Computers and 3 HP networked Printers. 2 Cisco routers and firewalls, Inter-store Network, 25 mb Ethernet. 19 VOIP Phones Del Mar/Encinitas Store : 100baseT environment, IBM Blade System C3000 running UNIX, 10 TB NAS Backup, 5KVA APD UPS for power backup, Retail Operations entail NCR RealPOS 82XRT POS Terminals, Management 6 Dell Vostro Computers and 1 HP Laserjet Printers. 2 Cisco routers and firewalls, Inter-store Network, 25 mb Ethernet. 6 VOIP phones per store. La Jolla Diagram : Del Mar, Encinitas Stores (same set up) I find no current issues with the hardware, although I do believe software can be a small issue. The corporate SAP ERP SW software, should be available to the management at the other three stores as well. The standards that would apply to this system and the next system will of course be IEEE 802x depending on if the company has or will invest in developing their own standards. For the purpose of...
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...light at the end of the tunnel. HP has gone through 4 CEOs in 8 years which has caused changes in environment, culture, and the trust of stockholders and investors. However, current CEO Meg Whitman has a positive outlook. In the last year since her start with HP, she has implemented a four year restructuring plan. The restructuring plan will be discussed in detail in this paper as it is a vital part of Hewlett-Packards situation financially and in the Market. When the economy is in a recession, all industries suffer. For a company like HP, the down market mixed with the increasing rate of technological advances, it is a double hit. HP has been the leader in PC manufacturing for over 70 years and is still one of the top in the industry. The future of HP looks promising. Faith in HP has been shaken over the last 5 years but with Meg Whitman on board, her experience and knowledge will be a much needed change for the company. In this paper, the strategic innovations for a changing market will be discussed in detail with what HP has in store for its future and how the company will rise in hard times. Also discussed will be the tactics that have already been put in place by HP including new products that will, in hopes, positively change their image. Human Resource Management and its role in meeting strategic goals will be described and if investing in HP as a mutual funds manager would be beneficial. The goal of this paper is to analyze HP and their business processes and how...
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...Our assignment for this week is to prepare a strategic plan to grow an organization over the next three years. In this plan we are to include the following: 1) a description of the organization’s history, products, and their major competitors, 2) explain the current situation of the organization in the market, 3) conduct a SWOT analysis to determine what areas offer opportunities for change, 4) select three areas from the SWOT analysis and explain why the areas chosen are essential to the strategic plan, and 5) explain the method to measure the success of the strategic plan. The company that I chose to create a strategic plan for is going to be for Dell. With all this said let’s get started with Dell’s company overview. Dell came about in 1984, which is about 29 years ago. Their goal since they started was to make customized computers and have them delivered directly to the customer’s door. This company designs, manufactures, produces, promotes, sells, customizes, and presents amazing services to all over the world. They also offer its business making software, smart phones, peripherals, servers, mobile workstations, networking server optimizations, and data storage capabilities. Dell’s company employs more than 98,000 employees. Dell started with $1,000 in 1984 and their stock went up 13,5000% in the last 25 years (Dell, (2014). Dell reached their goal in 2011 by merging two brands to promote a better line of products which is where Alienware Systems came in. This...
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...QUICK TEST PROFESSIONAL 11 Table of Contents 1 Session 1 INTRODUCTION TO QTP 9.5 3 1.1 Introduction 3 1.2 Add-ins in 9.5 3 1.3 Use of Addins 3 1.4 Add-in Manager 4 1.5 Benefits of Automated Testing: 4 1.6 The 7 phases of QTP 5 1.6.1 Preparing to record 5 1.6.2 Recording a session on your application 5 1.6.3 Enhancing your test 6 1.6.4 Debugging your test 6 1.6.5 Running your test 6 1.6.6 Analysing the test results 6 1.6.7 Reporting defects 6 1.7 QTP Main Window 7 2 Recording Modes and Run Modes 11 2.1 Major steps before scripting 11 2.2 Exercise 11 2.3 Recording Modes 12 2.3.1 Normal 12 2.3.2 Analog 12 2.3.3 Low Level 14 2.4 Run Modes / Execution Modes / Playback Modes 15 2.4.1 Run Mode 15 2.4.2 Maintenance Run Mode 15 2.4.3 Update Mode 16 3 Session 3 17 3.1 Introduction 17 3.2 Object Repository Types 17 3.2.1 Local Object Repository 17 3.2.2 Shared Object Repository 18 3.2.3 How to associate Shared Repository 19 3.3 Object Repository Window 19 3.4 Exporting Local Objects to an Object Repository 20 3.5 Managing Shared Object Repository Associations: 20 3.6 Object Repository Manager 21 3.6.1 Performing Merge Operations 22 4 Section 4: SYNCHRONISING YOUR TEST 25 4.1 Synchronisation Options 25 4.1.1 Modifying Timeout Values 25 4.1.2 Adding Exist and Wait Statements 25 4.1.3 Creating Synchronisation Points 25 4.2 Exercise 26 4.2.1 Using Wait statement...
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...Advantages and disadvantages of using SWOT analysis to develop corporate strategy. Discuss using examples related to at least two companies. Introduction SWOT analysis SWOT analysis can also be called as SLOT analysis which is a strategic planning or direction for making decision based on available resources to determine valuate the Strength, Weaknesses/limitations, Opportunities, and Threats involved in a project or in a small business (business venture). It mentions the objective of business or a collaborative enterprise project and recognizes the internal, external factors which come in the achieving of objective. This method of analysis is prepared by an American businessman and a management consultant named Albert S Humphrey (Stanford University in the 1960s and 1970s). An objective of a project or a business venture should be only started after the SWOT analysis has been carried out. It would be easy for the organization to achieve its targets/objective. With the help of SWOT analysis decision makers are able to ascertain after a calculation that whether the objective they are planning is capable of been done or not. If not they must choose the distinct objective and the process is done over again. (Source : http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://swotanalysistemplate.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Slide5.jpg&imgrefurl=http://swotanalysistemplate.com/&h=302&w=604&sz=36&tbnid=ntJM-sR_xbjS7M:&tbnh=61&tbnw=121&prev=/sea...
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...iBM 1. 2. Analyze IBM strategies, to remix their businesses in order to move to the emerging higher-value spaces, in Macro and Micro environment level 3. IBM strategy PESTEL analysis in Macro level Five forces analysis in Micro level Recommendation Conclusion SOWT analysis Complexity analysis 4. o IBM understood Value was shifting in the IT industry, driven by the rising tide of global integration, a new computing paradigm and new client needs. o Economies of developing nations were growing rapidly, driven by historic investments in fundamental business infrastructure. Enterprises were looking to tap skills and expertise available all over the world and to integrate their operations globally. o Change in computing architecture was rippling across the data center and the network, along with a proliferation of technology infused into all aspects of work and life. Companies were seeking to integrate advanced technology with their business processes and operations, not only to reduce costs, but to enable innovation and growth. o IBM remixed their businesses in order to move to the emerging higher- value spaces by focusing on software and IT industry. IBM Strategies 5. IBM Strategies Hardware And Services Software IBM sold the personal computing department To Lenovo 6. PESTEL Analysis for Macro environment factors Social Political Technological Environmental Economic Legislative 7. Iraq War in 2003, affected world economy, and IBM stock fell down. Technology affects directly...
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...BUSINESS STRATEGY TERM PAPER ON STRATEGIC ANALYSIS OF SINGER BANGLADESH LTD Submitted to Mr. A.K.M. Saiful Majid Course Instructor & Professor Strategic Management Submitted by Quazi Asaduzzaman, Roll # 14, MBA 44E B M Hasan Mahmud, Roll # 36, MBA 44E Submitted on June 13 2013 Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka June 13, 2013 Mr. A.K.M. Saiful Majid Professor Institute of Business Administration University of Dhaka. Subject: Submission of Term Paper. Dear Sir, It gives us enormous pleasure in presenting herewith the Term Paper on “Strategic Analysis of Singer Bangladesh Ltd” which was assigned to us as partial fulfillment of Strategic Management course. While preparing the term paper we got an opportunity to have an insight on Singer Bangladesh Ltd. An attempt has been made in this report to get an insight of Singer Bangladesh Ltd. We have tried heart and soul to make the report effective and useful. We are grateful to you for providing us this opportunity of gaining such practical experiences. If you need any assistance for further interpretation, please call us up. Sincerely Yours, (Quazi Asaduzzaman) ID#14, 44th(E) batch (Quazi Asaduzzaman) ID#14, 44th(E) batch (B M Hasan Mahmud) ID#36, 44th(E) batch (B M Hasan Mahmud) ID#36, 44th(E) batch ACKNOWLEDGEMENT It gives us immense pleasure to thank few individuals for their cordial cooperation and encouragement, who have contributed directly or indirectly...
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...major premise of the Teams initiative? I have been assigned to research company personnel needed to be included in the planning, implementing, sustaining the change and why? A strong leader with a vision, plans, and surrounded by a team of individuals that believe in the vision and trust the leader can effect change. The leader is very important to the major premise of the team initiative because without a leader the team will not have direction. This is like steering a ship without its captain. For our capstone case on Hewlett Packard, I selected the best leader available to lead Hewlett Packard through this change and surrounded her with individuals with impeccable credentials to lead the charge for change during this challenging time at HP. Meg Whitman, President and Chief Executive Officer comes to her new position with a wealth of knowledge and experience. From March to September 2011, Ms. Whitman served as...
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...I chose Zips, a company for portable wine containers. The initial offer from the pitch was a 2.5 million dollar investment for 10% equity stake in the company. The Zips business is the best solution to drinking wine on the go. I chose this product because I was very impressed with the offer and the backup that the presenter had. Zips is going to be a successful company simply in the utility of the product. Many people who want to have wine somewhere have the problem of having a nice way of drinking it. The consumable product itself is sellable and generally a high-class commodity. People who buy wine have money so the target audience is profitable. What I am very impressed with is the mobility of the product. The holistic utility of the product is mainly in its mobility. Not only can you take it anywhere but also the glasses are extremely strong. The presenter even stood on top of his class product and it didn’t break. Keep in mind this is a only a glass to hold wine. Secondly the twist on cap that can attach to the bottom is a well thought idea that greatly increases the mobility. I think that the patent that the company has is a valuable one. Selling the company’s own wine might not be the best idea however if they sell the packaging license to a huge company that either distributes or bottles wine, the company could be sold for a lot of money. Just the idea behind the franchise is valuable in itself. Yes, it isn’t as good as having an actual wine glass...
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